More of this !!

Well, well, well....

On this day in 1939, while allied with Nazi Germany, Russia invaded Finland. Roughly 11% of the country was eventually occupied by Russians, and since 1947 has remained so.

The UK allows the global price of gas to set the price we pay for our own North Sea gas and our owned wind and sun generated power. Until we break that link, the UK stays in the clasp of global fossil markets and their extreme volatility. It cost the UK £80bn in the energy crisis - for nothing.

Could this be were sum of the funds came from for Ms Ferrari to purchase the Farage property in Clacton?

"Death to the IDF" The chant has caused some hand wringing and the chant is not going to go back in the box. An excellent written piece to explain why..... www.facebook.com/share/p/16kg...

Kneecap at Glastonbury don't RT they are supposed to be terrorists or something.

Very noticeable that none of the big Brexit backing accounts on X have said anything at all about the 9th anniversary of the chaos they unleashed. Almost like they'd rather we all forgot about it.

And you wonder where Reform gets its funding?

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

Manhandling a sitting US Senator is just the latest in a series of authoritarian moves by this Administration…Silencing your opposition from even asking a question. They do this shit because they think they can get away with it. Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.

Amazing. Respect the lede.

To put into context.....

Didn't take them long....

As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate: Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...

We’ve done the hard journalism: we collected the best penguin memes born from Trump’s utterly unhinged tariff list. From frozen rocks to free trade – this is the trade war content you never knew you needed. 🐧 @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Something tells us that "Clactose-intolerant" is going to stick 🤣🤣🤣

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

NEW. Trump poll nos. on foreign policy tanking 📉 ‼️ Unlike Trump, Americans personally sympathize more w Ukraine overRussia by 56-3 👀 Disapprove Trump's foreign policy by 13 pts (50% to 37 %); in Jan they approved 39% to 37%. Ambushing Zelensky at Oval despite propaganda looks to be a disaster.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

I think this should be shared.... www.facebook.com/Cevreapoporu...

New billboard in Clacton, Farage’s constituency. He’s still the UK’s #1 grifter. No other MP takes more from second jobs while being employed to represent their constituents in Parliament

That’s more like it.

www.theguardian.com/business/202... The bastard Tories, their Brexit (and the appalling people who voted for them) have absolutely SCREWED this country.

NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Still relevant to today

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The group said Reform was being run in an "increasingly autocratic manner" and "has lost its sense of direction" since Farage took over as leader last June.

"So concerned were Reform MPs at child abuse, none turned up to the Commons debate"

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

Some summer fun at the World Surf Rowing Championships 2024. Roll on 2025..

Does anyone else relate to this cartoon?

The irony is thick here.

You give me a $100 and then I give you a $100 so you have a $100 to give me. All while the same $100 is kept as collateral to ensure you can pay the $100.

Inside Bashar Al-Assad’s prisons. Hell on earth.

Our mesmerising rise on BlueSky continues and we are nearly on 60k followers. It's a lovely space here that seems largely free from the right wing spreaders of hate and disinformation seen on so many other platforms. Please spread the word and help us get to 60K followers.

The future is uncertain but can we just relish this moment as prisoners reunite with families after decades?

Assad has fled Syria after returning from Russia, the Kremlin denied further assistance to the regime citing "their own issues", the collapse of the Assad regime may be hours away. Reportedly he is meeting with Iranian officials in Tehran. Likely to form a government in exile.

Wagner mercenary replacement in Africa... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

‘If Vladimir Putin is allowed to succeed in reducing Ukraine to a vassal state, he will not stop there. Our security — British, French, European and transatlantic — would be jeopardised.’ www.ft.com/content/ad00...

My take on Gladiator II? Denzil Washington is no Oliver Reed. Honestly Ridley, it is time to sit back and enjoy your retirement.

An excellent read describing this weeks political machinations by Celina Bedowska eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

The French foreign minister is correct. When dealing with Russia the West must have no red lines. That was the principle before the Berlin wall came down. Europe is back in the Cold War era. MAD is the word.

Well this seems bad.